Author : Douglas Rushkoff
Publisher : Ballantine Books
Page : 365 pages
File Size : 13,67 MB
Release : 2010-12-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0307775577
The most virulent viruses today are composed of information. In this information-driven age, the easiest way to manipulate the culture is through the media. A hip and caustically humorous McLuhan for the '90s, culture watcher Douglas Rushkoff now offers a fascinating expose of media manipulation in today's age of instant information.
Author : Rahel Sixta Schmitz
Publisher : transcript Verlag
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 42,50 MB
Release : 2021-07-31
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 3839455596
Since the 1990s, the virus and the network metaphors have become increasingly popular, finding application in a broad range of everyday discourses, academic disciplines, and fiction genres. In this book, Rahel Sixta Schmitz defines and discusses a trope recurring in Gothic fiction: the supernatural media virus. This trope comprises the confluence of the virus, the network, and a deep, underlying media anxiety. This study shows how Gothic narratives such as House of Leaves or The Ring feature the supernatural media virus to negotiate as well as actively shape imaginations of the network society and the dangers of a globalized, technologized world.
Author : Seth Mnookin
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 466 pages
File Size : 44,75 MB
Release : 2012-01-03
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 1439158657
A searing account of how vaccine opponents have used the media to spread their message of panic, despite no scientific evidence to support them.
Author : Douglas Rushkoff
Publisher : OR Books
Page : 151 pages
File Size : 26,1 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Computers
ISBN : 1935928155
Is the internet good or bad? How can technology be directed? In this spirited, accessible poetics of new media, Rushkoff picks up where Marshall McLuhan left off, helping readers come to recognise programming as the new literacy of the digital age and as a template through which to see beyond social conventions and power structures that have vexed us for centuries. This is a friendly little book with a big and actionable message.
Author : Kenneth Arnold Mercer
Publisher :
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 45,40 MB
Release : 1983
Category : Chemotaxis
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Author : Difco Laboratories Digestive Ferments Co. (Detroit)
Publisher :
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 40,36 MB
Release : 1960
Category : Tissue culture
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Author : Constantinos V. Chrysikopoulos
Publisher :
Page : 134 pages
File Size : 40,86 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Groundwater flow
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Page : 570 pages
File Size : 24,36 MB
Release : 1915
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Page : 586 pages
File Size : 45,82 MB
Release : 1915
Category : Communicable diseases
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Author : Richard Preston
Publisher : Corgi
Page : 383 pages
File Size : 28,84 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Ebola virus disease
ISBN : 9780552143035
Imagine a killer with the infectiousness of the common cold and power of the Black Death. Imagine something so deadly that it wipes out 90% of those it touches. Imagine an organism against which there is no defence. But you don't need to imagine. Such a killer exists: it is a virus and its name is Ebola. The Hot Zone tells what happens when the unthinkable becomes reality: when a deadly virus, from the rain forests of Africa, crosses continents and infects a monkey house ten miles from the White House. Ebola is that reality. It has the power to decimate the world's population. Try not to panic. It will be back. There is nothing you can do...
